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Esyllt Jones

UPDATED Pandemics past and present

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On the Line: Love and Rage and Pandemics

    By Esyllt Jones

    One of my unfinished pandemic-era tasks has been to write a short biographical piece on Helen Jury Armstrong, the organizer of working class women, and the embodiment of love and fire in the Winnipeg General Strike. Here, I explore how the influenza pandemic highlighted her unique brand of labour activism.

    “Carried Away”: Alice Munro and History

      By Esyllt Jones

      A century ago, people living through World War I, the global influenza pandemic, and waves of social unrest experienced a world in turmoil. These world-historical events must have been interconnected, and those connections must have affected people’s lives.